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The burden is dominated by cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and visceral leishmaniasis (VL), mainly associated with\n                    <jats:italic>Leishmania major<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Leishmania tropica<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>L. infantum<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Despite long\u2010standing national control efforts aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the national ambition to eliminate leishmaniasis as a public health problem by 2030, transmission persists and continues to expand in some areas. Climate change, urbanization, and socioeconomic inequities are reshaping vector and reservoir distributions and intensifying human exposure, whereas emerging insecticide resistance threatens the sustainability of current vector\u2010control approaches. 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